Tuesday, 30 September 2014

September 2014 – DALLAS, TX – U.S.
health officials said on Tuesday the first patient infected with the
deadly Ebola virus had been diagnosed in the country, in a new sign of
how the outbreak ravaging West Africa can spread globally. The patient
had recently traveled to West Africa and developed symptoms several days
after returning to Texas, state officials said. The patient was
admitted to an isolation room at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in
Dallas.

Sunday, 28 September 2014

Over 30 people are feared dead near the erupting Ontake volcano in central Japan, police reported. The volcano started erupting on Saturday, sending ash clouds down the mountain’s slope for more than 3 kilometers.
Volcano erupts in central Japan, dozens injured (VIDEO, PHOTOS)
The people were found by police officers in a state of "cardiopulmonary arrest” near the top of the volcano,

Saturday, 27 September 2014

September 2014 – LIBERIA, Africa - Fear and panic is spreading in Nimba County, an African community where dead Ebola patients have reportedly “resurrected” and roams around among the living. The victims were allegedly women in their 40s and 60s who was thought to have died from the virus in Liberia’s Nimba County. According to the local paper The New Dawn, the pair of “walking dead” is

September 2014 – HEALTH - An outbreak of respiratory illness first observed in the Midwest has spread to 38 states, sending children to hospitals and baffling scientists trying to understand its virulent resurgence. As of Thursday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had confirmed 226 cases of infection with enterovirus 68. But it is likely that many times that number have been stricken.

Unexpected eruption of Mt. Ontake, Japan (September 27, 13:02 UTC)
Wow, impressive and hair rising video of the eruption ash clouds raging down the slopes of the volcano. You wont believe your eyes! The streaming webcam who captured these images was installed on a nearby mountain. It was (unfortunately) cloudy at the time of the eruption.
This eruption shows once again that predicting eruptions is NOT an exact science. JMA Japan is world renowned for his expertise but was unable to predict this blast - http://www.asahi.com/articles/ASG9W5KFJG9WULBJ00D.html (this is the link to the video)

Monday, 15 September 2014

SAN JOSE DEL CABO, Mexico -A powerful Hurricane Odile
bore down on the resort area of Los Cabos on Sunday, prompting Mexican
authorities to evacuate vulnerable coastal areas and prepare shelters
for up to 30,000 people.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center in
Miami said Odile's core was on a track to pass close to or directly over
the south end of Baja California late Sunday and into Monday and move
by the southern portion of the peninsula on Tuesday.

Sunday, 14 September 2014

September 2014 – AFRICA – Today,
the Ebola virus spreads only through direct contact with bodily fluids,
such as blood and vomit. But some of the nation’s top infectious
disease experts worry that this deadly virus could mutate and be
transmitted just by a cough or a sneeze. “It’s the single greatest
concern I’ve ever had in my 40-year public health career,” said Dr.
Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease
Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.

September 2014 – ICELAND – People on Norway’s coast have reported a strong smell of sulfur in the air this week, and experts say it’s coming from a surprising source: Iceland’s Bardarbunga volcano, 800 miles away. Bardarbunga sits about seven miles under the Dyngjujökull glacier, which is more than 800 miles west, and across the Atlantic, from Norway. But as Vibeke Thyness at the Norwegian Medical Institute told Norway’s public broadcasting radio station,

September 2014 – JAKARTA, Indonesia — Mount Slamet volcano in Central Java province erupted again on Friday, spewing a column of ash by up to one km high, prompting more than 20,000 villagers living on the slope of the volcano to prepare for evacuation, officials said. Indonesian authorities have put the Mount Slamet volcano on the second-highest alert level after

(AGI) Rome, Sept 14 - A Middle East Airlines plane that was escorted to Fiumicino airport by two Italian Air Force jets on Sunday took off once again after bomb disposal experts found nothing on board. The ME214 flight from Geneva to Beirut had requested assistance for "problems on board", most likely suspicious luggage. The two Eurofighter jets from the Italian Air Force base in Grosseto broke the sound barrier at a relatively low altitude while on the way, causing sonic booms to echo north of Rome. . .

Saturday, 13 September 2014

Global positioning system and radio transmissions may be degraded through Saturday as two solar eruptions strike Earth and affect its magnetic field.
The U.S. Space Weather Prediction Centre is tracking two two coronal mass ejections, “huge expulsions of magnetic field and plasma” that shot out of an area near the centre of the sun’s disc.
“Essentially the sun just shot out a magnet and it is about to interact with another magnet, Earth’s magnet,” William Murtagh,

Tavurvur incredible eruption of the volcano in Papua New Guinea. The big volcano was dormant for about 6 years. The amateur video of this man has taken the time of the eruption with the following explosion. A natural show creepy. In the video you can see how the eruption has created a powerful shock wave that has propagated in the air and after a few seconds it came on the boat where there was the amateur cameraman who went on to film the event.

A colossal, sheep-swallowing sinkhole has appeared in County Durham - and it is only getting bigger.
The gigantic chasm, which is so deep the bottom cannot be seen at one end, is thought to be the result of rocks and soil rushing into mine workings deep beneath the surface.
The hole was apparently three times smaller when it was first discovered on Thursday morning, the Telegraph reported.

September 2014 – AFRICA - A doctor who just returned from treating Ebola patients in West Africa predicts the current Ebola outbreak will go on for more than a year, and will continue to spread unless a vaccine or other drugs that prevent or treat the disease are developed. Dr. Daniel Lucey, an expert on viral outbreaks and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Medical Center,